Our message Sunday at Life Church was a thorough explanation of the Blood Covenant between GOD and those who choose to follow Him. Starting with Abram and ending with JESUS CHRIST. By the blood of the Lamb slain we are redeemed and given new life in Him and through Him to the glory of GOD. Father, Son and HOLY SPIRIT…what a wonderful triune God we serve!
Our brothers and sisters consist of all followers of Jesus in any country including our own….what hurts them hurts us and what lifts them up lifts up the whole body of christ. we are united by the blood of the lamb not by the color of our skin or the culture that we live in but by god’s love.
we love others because he first loved us enough to give up his life in exchange for theirs.
It was too small a thing that He be only for the salvation of the Jews so God offered His mercy and grace in Jesus to all people, in any nation, who call on His name in truth.
Jesus fulfills the messianic role of the shepherd. This role in Ezekiel is depicted as fulfilled by God; Jesus makes the claim that He (as God in flesh) is the one fulfilling it. In addition to fulfilling God’s role with His people as shepherd, Jesus fulfills David’s role as their king. This gives Jesus the authority to make the claims He does. He alludes to the Gentiles and the ultimate universal scope of salvation via His atoning death. Faithlife Bible.
Jesus is the good shepherd who gives His life for the sheep as opposed to the wicked thief who takes their lives. Jesus laid down His physical life in order to give us eternal life. One flock anticipates the salvation of the Gentiles and the formation of the church, in which converted Jews and Gentiles would form one spiritual body
John 10:11–16 (NKJV)
11 “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep. 12 But a hireling, he who is not the shepherd, one who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf catches the sheep and scatters them. 13 The hireling flees because he is a hireling and does not care about the sheep. 14 I am the good shepherd; and I know My sheep, and am known by My own. 15 As the Father knows Me, even so I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep. 16 And other sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they will hear My voice; and there will be one flock and one shepherd.
Isaiah 56:8 (NKJV)
8 The Lord God, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, says,
“Yet I will gather to him
Others besides those who are gathered to him.”
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